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Baili Azalea Six-Day Tour to Chongqing Cave Wonders Jinfo Mountain

Among the many landscapes in Chongqing, Jinfo Mountain is rated as a natural scenic spot with great development value by domestic and foreign experts. International travel agencies recommend everyone to go to Jinfo Mountain. Here, mountains, water, rocks, forests, springs and caves are integrated into one, majestic, strange, secluded, dangerous and beautiful, with beautiful scenery and pleasant climate. Jinfo Mountain's unique natural features, wide variety of rare animals and plants, majestic and strange rock shapes, mysterious and deep cave palaces, unpredictable weather landscapes and precious cultural relics have made it a national key scenic spot and a national forest park.

The underground of Jinfo Mountain is a huge cave system, with many caves distributed in underground rivers like spider webs. There are caves with the highest altitude in China, including Ancient Buddha Cave, Golden Buddha Cave, Immortal Cave, Lingguan Cave, Swallow Cave, Yang Er Cave and Batu Cave. The cave is 130 meters wide at its widest point, 50 meters high at its highest point, more than 10 kilometers long, and extends underground in all directions. The Ancient Buddha Cave is located in the center of the top of Jinfo Mountain. The entrance to the cave is very small. After turning back and forth 48 times, you can see a huge and wide cave hall. There are eight caves in the Ancient Buddha Cave. The main cave is 1,072 meters long, more than 20 meters high, and 40-60 meters wide. It covers an area of ??40,000 square meters and can accommodate 100,000 people. The end of the main cave is on a cliff. Standing at the entrance of the cave, you can enjoy the infinitely beautiful natural scenery of Jinfo Mountain.

The Bitan Valley on the western slope of Foshan winds for more than 10 kilometers. The streams in the scenic area are rapid, old vines are crisscrossed, and the trees are dense. There are continuous cliffs on both sides of the strait, and famous landscapes include Jingshiyan, Baolong Gorge, Longzhao Pass, etc. Slowly walk up the secluded valley, where you can admire the rift valleys as big and small as axes, small bridges, flowing water, plank roads, pavilions, and exotic flowers and plants. After leaving the canyon, you can enjoy the golden turtle sunrise landscape and visit the Golden Buddha Cave.

Wolong Lake Canyon is located at the foothills of the northern slope of Jinfo Mountain Scenic Area. There are steep cliffs on both sides of the canyon, and the mountains are covered with various wild and primitive vegetation. You can enjoy the Wolong Lake, Yixiantian, strange rocks, Yaochi, Silver Rope, Tiger Leaping Lake and other landscapes.

Longyan City is an ancient military training ground. Together with Hechuan Diaoyu City, it was an anti-Mongolian friendly city in the late Southern Song Dynasty. It strangles the traffic throats of Guizhou and Sichuan, and the terrain is extremely dangerous. It has always been a battlefield for military strategists. There are complete walls surrounding the curved rock. There is Changpu Bay above the barracks. The county chronicle records that "there is a pond above it, three feet long, deep, and not dry all year round. It may be a place where veterans store water." There is a very precious stone tablet carved on the cliff of Chengmen, which has precious historical and cultural value. 4.2 meters long, 3.5 meters high, with 258 characters. It is in double-hook regular script, simple and elegant, and was engraved in the first year of the Qing Dynasty in the Southern Song Dynasty. There are still unexplored underground tunnels here, some of which were used for underground transportation, possibly for defense, drainage, storage, etc. It can fully meet military needs.

At the intersection of Jinfo Mountain and Baiji Mountain, the Baizhi River Grand Canyon was formed due to years of water flow and wind erosion. The solitary peak at the mouth of the valley standing in the sky is Candlestick Peak. Hundreds of meters high, it looks like a huge candlestick from the front, with an equally huge "candle" stuck on it. When the flowers on the top of the mountain bloom, a red flame is lit at the top of the candle. From the bottom of the peak to the back of Candlestick Peak, looking back, it looks like a camel half lying down drinking water.

The Yanyun Cave in Jinfo Mountain is an excellent place to appreciate stalactites and is known as the Stalactite Museum. Cloud Cave was formed in the Triassic Period of the Mesozoic Era, about 180 million years ago. Every winter and spring, white mist rushes straight into the entrance of the cave, and smoke clouds linger halfway up the mountain, hence the name Yanyun Cave. The stalactites in the cave are well developed and well preserved.

Stalagmites, stone pillars, hanging chests, majestic